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...name means "beautiful," but its history has been hard and ugly. The mountainous island of Formosa was devastated by 50 years of Japanese occupation, and it fared little better under the Chinese after they regained control in 1945. Its nadir came in 1950 when Chiang Kai-shek landed on the island with 500,000 beaten soldiers and 2,000,000 refugees from the Communist mainland, straining the unhappy country to the breaking point...
...newcomers and the 5,000,000 natives settled down together in an uneasy truce while the Red Chinese juggernaut massed across the 115-mile-wide strip of water. It was then that President Truman warned that the U.S. would do nothing to stop the Communists or to aid Chiang Kaishek...
...They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
...part of a burgeoning welfare complex known as the Juarez-Lincoln Social Center - and of an ambitious private program called Project Amigos. Both were started three years ago, when Mrs. Mabel Naylor Danalis, a San Diego Welfare Department employee who had previously worked among the poor in Greece and Chiang Kai-shek's China, heard of ten wartime dormitory buildings that were about to be torn down outside of San Diego...
Died. Chen Cheng, 67, Vice President and former Premier of Nationalist China, an austere soldier-statesman who was Chiang Kai-shek's strong right hand from the early 1920s onward, fought against the warlords, the Japanese and the Communists, introduced the 1949 Taiwan land reform that made 90% of the farmers masters of the land they worked, and until his own ill health and the rising fortunes of Chiang's son reduced his power, was regarded as the Generalissimo's heir presumptive; of liver cancer; in Taipei...